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Ask HN: Why don't banks render numbers as PNGs instead of using HTML?
I've been thinking about scammers lately and thought about rendering numbers as a png in browsers instead of displaying them as HMTL for banks. This would ensure scammers can't just go in and edit the html on the fly potentially saving some people from this kind of attack.
I played around with libvips and can easily create a png with any text.
vips text x.png "1,234,567" --width 100 --align centre --dpi 340
Any thoughts on why this shouldn't be done?